There is no longer anything in the world that escapes the dogma of complexity

From method, complexity has become ideology, haven of vain wits, lost well-meanings and scoundrel professors. Philosopher Sophie Chassat’s essay against this current cultural myth

Immigration? “It’s a complex phenomenon.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine? “It’s more complex how the Western media tell it”. Climate change? “It will have such complex consequences that it is difficult even to imagine them”. And the carbonara? Well, even the carbonara has a “complex simplicity,” says food blogger frafoodlove. There is no longer anything in the world that escapes the dogma of complexity: refuge of vain intelligences, lost well-meaning and scoundrel professors.